Yeah, those crazy Cherokee and their rider policies. Always attaching the term extensions for the tribal chiefs to the "don't feed my babies to the rabid crocodile" bill.
Or you could not be pedanic and insulting and just write something like: "I'm not pleased that you voted in favor of the blah blah bill because it gives carte blanche to blah blah. As a result, I won't be voting for you in the next election, though I normally vote for your party. Have a nice day."
Seriously, the manner in which you expand the arguments for your case make any given reader LESS likely to agree with you, I would just go for not offering more than a minimal explanation at all.
Eh, that's not a possible bill, according to the constitution. No body of our government is allowed to control its own salary. Of course, you knew that, and were just poking fun, but I feel a strange compulsion to clarify for the non-Americans who may not be familiar with this and take you seriously. Craziness.
Yeah, better protest... reading the act, the card will require awful, intrusive things like
An adress of current residence A signature (oh, no!) A photograph (the horror!) and... wait for it... a DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER.
Those bastards! How dare they force my driver's license to reveal confidential information like my driver's license number! It's a crime against humanity, I tell you?
Seriously, though. I have applied for drivers license in two states and neither of them will have to change a thing under this law, except being overseen by a federal organization. Maybe this means I'll finally stop getting jury summons for a state I haven't lived in in three years.
Yeah, in california, treating any minority as an equal is discrimination. You have to treat them like royalty, or get hit with a lawsuit (if you're a business) or just insulted (if you're a private individual). Although it helps that EVERYONE in california is some historically opressed minority. It's one of the reasons being gay is so popular out here these days, gives them something to whine about, without ever having to be actually opressed in any way. (/complaint about stupid local politics)
My theory is that it's just a reaction by people who went to college. I swear, admit you're even vaguely theistic, like something traditional, or have a low idiot test score (SAT) and you'll get lynched in college faster than a greased turtle rock climbing in a noose. No wonder we reverse it after graduation. But, yeah, I agree that no one gives a damn about sexuality one way or another nowadays.
50$ is 50 sunday papers (or less, if you're unlucky in your city of residence) or about 100 weekday papers (neither of those is a full year's worth at newsstand price). So I, personally, don't think 50$ for a year of news is that bad.
You're somehow arguing that one option is more than two options. And, interestingly, your agrument benefits from the "for large values of 1 and small values of 2" argument, i.e. that a restriction is somehow a freedom. I give up. Truly, your wisdom is mighty. I realize now that ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, and doublethink is doubleplus good. Thank you.
Yes, actually, it would. Restricting my freedom to kill is what we call exchanging freedom for security. And BSD is more free because it places fewer restrictions on those it affects. Unless you're talking about monetary cost, in which case it's still more free, because releasing source code on a for-profit project results in a reduction of profit (effectively a monetary price on the use of GPLed code).
"If my code is helping someone, why wouldn't that person help me?"
Believe it or not, there are philosophies that advocate helping people just because it's the right thing to do. It's called "anything in western philosophy but Hobbes". You should read it sometime.
Not so much a problem as the point of the license. Freedom of choice is good for you, it allows you to develop actual social responsibility and stuff, instead of simple obediance from fear of punishment.
I wouldn't call it abuse exactly. BSD was just apparrently written by people who cared more about the ideology behind open-source than actually forcing people to conform to it, whereas GPL was designed by a slightly more hardcore communist bunch. Of course, my opinions are colored by high-level slashdot exposure, so they may be suffering from radiation damage.
You keep all your reference files in the same folder, both those from your company and those garnered from the internet? I know I'm easily that sloppy, though admittedly I don't code for a living except in a very peripheral manner.
Fair enough, I guess. Way to streamline the process of flooding the nation with pointless lawsuits. Maybe between this and medical malpractice, we'll finally be buried under a mile of paper and preserved for future generations of africans to excavate, like in that children's book I read once. Forgot the title.
Sounds like a lot of work when you can just type "open source" and whatever you want the code to do in google, and get a bunch of project homepages. Unless they mean to detect open-source code in a compiled executable, in which case, who cares?
I came up with a similar system. It involves a complex system of cleverly sized "measuring cups" and "Measuring spoons" and a "bottle of 151 rum". It gets the juice just right every time.
The orange catholic bible CLEARLY states that no machine shall be made in the likeness of a human mind. I demand that they remove this awful progammable electronic abomination and replace it with a clean, environmentally friendly mentat immediately. Seriously, guys, how many Butlerian jihads is it going to take for you guys to get the point?
Well, taht would be the implication of everyone joining the UN, yes. Thankfully, the idea hasn't really caught on, so countries bossing each other around reamins generally unenforceable.
Because all of the smart people are involved in useful things like engineering, business and janitorial work. The only people with enough time to do government stuff are the people that are (a) retired (b) failures in the business world (republicans) (c) people that got a lot of schooling, but not enough education to actually do something useful (democrats), and (d) Calivn Coolidge.
Man, Coolidge was awesome. We should re-elect him, being dead notwithstanding.
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As a Texan, I find the irony in your post somewhat elusive :-P
Yeah, those crazy Cherokee and their rider policies. Always attaching the term extensions for the tribal chiefs to the "don't feed my babies to the rabid crocodile" bill.
Or you could not be pedanic and insulting and just write something like: "I'm not pleased that you voted in favor of the blah blah bill because it gives carte blanche to blah blah. As a result, I won't be voting for you in the next election, though I normally vote for your party. Have a nice day."
Seriously, the manner in which you expand the arguments for your case make any given reader LESS likely to agree with you, I would just go for not offering more than a minimal explanation at all.
Eh, that's not a possible bill, according to the constitution. No body of our government is allowed to control its own salary. Of course, you knew that, and were just poking fun, but I feel a strange compulsion to clarify for the non-Americans who may not be familiar with this and take you seriously. Craziness.
I salute you, sir.
Yeah, better protest... reading the act, the card will require awful, intrusive things like
An adress of current residence
A signature (oh, no!)
A photograph (the horror!)
and... wait for it... a DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER.
Those bastards! How dare they force my driver's license to reveal confidential information like my driver's license number! It's a crime against humanity, I tell you?
Seriously, though. I have applied for drivers license in two states and neither of them will have to change a thing under this law, except being overseen by a federal organization. Maybe this means I'll finally stop getting jury summons for a state I haven't lived in in three years.
Yeah, in california, treating any minority as an equal is discrimination. You have to treat them like royalty, or get hit with a lawsuit (if you're a business) or just insulted (if you're a private individual). Although it helps that EVERYONE in california is some historically opressed minority. It's one of the reasons being gay is so popular out here these days, gives them something to whine about, without ever having to be actually opressed in any way. (/complaint about stupid local politics)
My theory is that it's just a reaction by people who went to college. I swear, admit you're even vaguely theistic, like something traditional, or have a low idiot test score (SAT) and you'll get lynched in college faster than a greased turtle rock climbing in a noose. No wonder we reverse it after graduation. But, yeah, I agree that no one gives a damn about sexuality one way or another nowadays.
Well, to be fair, I buy my paper papers with real quarters, and I still see ads. Luckily, no popups, yet.
50$ is 50 sunday papers (or less, if you're unlucky in your city of residence) or about 100 weekday papers (neither of those is a full year's worth at newsstand price). So I, personally, don't think 50$ for a year of news is that bad.
Actively? They take your open code and somehow remove it from the body of common knowledge? Neat.
Um... BSD: release or don't release source code. GPL: release source code.
You're somehow arguing that one option is more than two options. And, interestingly, your agrument benefits from the "for large values of 1 and small values of 2" argument, i.e. that a restriction is somehow a freedom. I give up. Truly, your wisdom is mighty. I realize now that ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, and doublethink is doubleplus good. Thank you.
Yes, actually, it would. Restricting my freedom to kill is what we call exchanging freedom for security. And BSD is more free because it places fewer restrictions on those it affects. Unless you're talking about monetary cost, in which case it's still more free, because releasing source code on a for-profit project results in a reduction of profit (effectively a monetary price on the use of GPLed code).
"If my code is helping someone, why wouldn't that person help me?"
Believe it or not, there are philosophies that advocate helping people just because it's the right thing to do. It's called "anything in western philosophy but Hobbes". You should read it sometime.
Not so much a problem as the point of the license. Freedom of choice is good for you, it allows you to develop actual social responsibility and stuff, instead of simple obediance from fear of punishment.
I wouldn't call it abuse exactly. BSD was just apparrently written by people who cared more about the ideology behind open-source than actually forcing people to conform to it, whereas GPL was designed by a slightly more hardcore communist bunch. Of course, my opinions are colored by high-level slashdot exposure, so they may be suffering from radiation damage.
You keep all your reference files in the same folder, both those from your company and those garnered from the internet? I know I'm easily that sloppy, though admittedly I don't code for a living except in a very peripheral manner.
Heh. Soon someone will write a 'Gpl encrypter' that does this automatically. Whee, a new version of encryption wars!
Fair enough, I guess. Way to streamline the process of flooding the nation with pointless lawsuits. Maybe between this and medical malpractice, we'll finally be buried under a mile of paper and preserved for future generations of africans to excavate, like in that children's book I read once. Forgot the title.
Sounds like a lot of work when you can just type "open source" and whatever you want the code to do in google, and get a bunch of project homepages. Unless they mean to detect open-source code in a compiled executable, in which case, who cares?
I came up with a similar system. It involves a complex system of cleverly sized "measuring cups" and "Measuring spoons" and a "bottle of 151 rum". It gets the juice just right every time.
The orange catholic bible CLEARLY states that no machine shall be made in the likeness of a human mind. I demand that they remove this awful progammable electronic abomination and replace it with a clean, environmentally friendly mentat immediately. Seriously, guys, how many Butlerian jihads is it going to take for you guys to get the point?
Well, taht would be the implication of everyone joining the UN, yes. Thankfully, the idea hasn't really caught on, so countries bossing each other around reamins generally unenforceable.
Because all of the smart people are involved in useful things like engineering, business and janitorial work. The only people with enough time to do government stuff are the people that are (a) retired (b) failures in the business world (republicans) (c) people that got a lot of schooling, but not enough education to actually do something useful (democrats), and (d) Calivn Coolidge.
Man, Coolidge was awesome. We should re-elect him, being dead notwithstanding.
All governments tell each other what to do. They even have a club for it now. Ever hear of the United Nations?